History Main / HypnosisProofDogs

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'': Animals (alongside robots) are immune to mind control, used by Psi Corps/Yuri Clones, Masterminds, and Psychic Towers. Whereas the superwewapon Psychic Dominator mind controls any other units in its ability range, this simply kills off animal units.

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E5TheHornsOfNimon The Horns of Nimon]]". The Doctor et al. are in a [[ALoadOfBull Minotaur]]-like maze where the walls keep moving about, but the Doctor's dog-shaped RobotBuddy K9 just goes right through the wall to freedom because he can't see it.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRocketeer'': In "Hypnotic Hughesville", Orsino uses a spell to hypnotize the citizens into acting like their favorite animals; Butch, Kit's dog, who ''is'' an animal to begin with, is unaffected.

* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', Sirius Black uses {{Animorphism}} to lessen the effects of the joy-sucking {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, called Dementors, that guard [[TheAlcatraz Azkaban]]. As a dog, his emotions are simpler, more animalistic, and [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth harder]] for an EmotionEater to process. But the blind Dementors can't tell he's in canine form, so they just assume he's lost his mind.

* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', Sirius Black turns into a dog to escape Azkaban because Dementors don't affect dogs as much as humans.

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'': The dogs [[spoiler: (and the terror drones which are mechanical dogs)]] are immune to the Psychic Control of the Psychic Commandos (Yuri).

* Invoked in ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' when the Bebop crew plug their corgi Ein into a cult's website which would hypnotise any human trying to search it. Unbeknownst to them, Ein is actually a hyperintelligent "data dog", and manages to hack the site almost instantly to furnish the cult leader's location.
* In the ''Anime/SailorMoon'' anime, when Chibiusa first appears she tries to hypnotize Usagi's entire family. At first this even affects Luna (who is a cat, albeit sentient), but she quickly breaks out of the trance and then bites Usagi to snap her out of it as well.

* In a ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'' comic, Mortadelo tries to invoke this trope by sending a dog after a hypnotiser thief to capture him. Unfortunately, it's subverted when the dog is hypnotized anyway, as the thief SpeaksFluentAnimal.

* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', Sirius Black turns into a dog to escape Azkaban because Dementors don't affect dogs as much as humans.
* In ''Literature/PerdidoStreetStation'', Sincerity the badger doesn't seem to be affected by the slake-moth's hypnotic wings. Justified because the moths feed exclusively on sentient victims, so would never ''need'' to hypnotize animals.

* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer,'' we eventually learn that the fifth season BigBad, [[PhysicalGod Glory]], is SharingABody with Ben, switching forms whenever one takes control from the other; any human who sees this, however, forgets immediately. Eventually Spike, a vampire, sees and tries to tell the others, only to be frustrated when they ''still'' keep forgetting after a few seconds.

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', a powerful demon tries to imprison you and your current party in a LotusEaterMachine. After you break free, you can enter your companions' dreams to free them. Most of them (except Morrigan) fall for the illusion but your Dog is simply put to sleep and re-joins you as soon as you approach him.

* Zigzagged in ''VideoGame/Mother3''. Boney is the only member of the party not to go on the MushroomSamba but that's because he refused to eat the mushrooms rather than any immunity. Also, when the hallucination of the protagonist's [[NeverFoundTheBody assumed-dead brother]] joins the party, Boney indicates its true nature before it attacks.

** Also, the episode with Rude Boy and the ska band has Shaggy and Scooby immune from the music from forcing everyone else to dance.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'', the sand witch rewrote history so that she and Jasmine swapped places. All the humans were affected, including Genie, but Iago, Abu, and Rajah were unaffected, overlapping with RippleEffectProofMemory.

* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''. One episode features the Seniors using a hypnotic disco ball. When they first show it off to Kim and Ron, they are both affected immediately. Then Rufus pops out of Ron's pocket, looks at the disco ball, and immediately becomes entranced.
* In the ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'' special, the BigBad, [[spoiler:[[EvilOldFolks Granny Goodness]]]], frames [[KillerGorilla Gorilla Grodd]] ([[AdaptationalHeroism who is a reformed villain in this series]]) for her evil plan so that he would get kicked out of the school. Her plan involves MindControl, and apparently they never figured out how to make that work on gorillas.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E5TheHornsOfNimon The Horns of Nimon]]". The Doctor et al. are in a {{Minotaur}}-like maze where the walls keep moving about, but the Doctor's dog-shaped RobotBuddy K9 just goes right through the wall to freedom because he can't see it.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' TV series, the sand witch rewrote history so that she and Jasmine swapped places. All the humans were affected, including Genie, but Iago, Abu, and Rajah were unaffected, overlapping with RippleEffectProofMemory.

* Zigzaged in ''VideoGame/Mother3''. Boney is the only member of the party not to go on the MushroomSamba but that's because he refused to eat the mushrooms rather than any immunity. Also, when the hallucination of the protagonist's [[NeverFoundTheBody assumed-dead brother]] joins the party, Boney indicates its true nature before it attacks.

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[[folder: Comic Books ]]

* At the end of the ''Comicbook/{{Tintin}}'' story ''[[Recap/TintinFlight714 Flight 714 to Sydney]]'' [[spoiler: the aliens]] wipe the minds of everyone of the entire incident. Snowy remembers the whole thing but it's unclear whether this trope is in effect or if they saw no need to do so as he can't tell anyone.
* In a ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'' comic, Mortadelo tries to invoke this trope by sending a dog after a hypnotizer thief to capture him. Unfortunately, it's subverted when the dog is hypnotized anyway, as the thief SpeaksFluentAnimal.

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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

* ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E5TheHornsOfNimon "The Horns of Nimon."]] The Doctor et al. are in a {{Minotaur}}like maze where the walls keep moving about, but the Doctor's dog-shaped RobotBuddy K9 just goes right through the wall to freedom because he can't see it.

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* In some editions of the ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' role-playing game, this is explicitly a part of mind-affecting powers--in order to affect animals, you have to buy it with extra points (or sacrifice the Human mind category.)

** ''Charm'' or ''Hold'' spells that only work on humanoids are lower level than those which affect other creature-types. In an [[InvertedTrope inversion]], there are also low-level mind-affecting spells that ONLY affect animals, but not humanoids or anything else.

[[folder: Video Games ]]

* Zigzaged in ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}''. Boney is the only member of the party not to go on the MushroomSamba but that's because he refused to eat the mushrooms rather than any immunity. Also, when the hallucination of the protagonist's [[NeverFoundTheBody assumed-dead brother]] joins the party, Boney indicates its true nature before it attacks.

[[folder: Web Comics ]]

* ''WebComic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound'' reveals fairly early on that Sniper Wolf's pet wolf Berthold is a telepath. Then there's one instance when Psycho Mantis and Bert both attempt to brainwash Vulcan Raven in order to fork over a stealth device. Eventually, Mantis' mask gets taken off and as soon as he gets it back on, he realizes that Berthold was a telepath the entire time, perhaps as strong as him.

[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* In the 90's British ''[[ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUK Dennis the Menace]]'' cartoon (''Dennis and Gnasher'' stateside) a mad scientist who was using hypnotizing music to trick the town into buying his useless inventions like toothless combs for bald people. He found out it didn't work on dogs and got around it by having a 'no dogs allowed' policy in the store.

** The episode with Aphrodite had all the humans falling under the spell of flowers [[spoiler:at least, those who could smell it]], which left Scooby Doo [[spoiler:and Professor Pericles]] to save the town.

[[AC:AnimeAndManga]]
* In ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'', one arc features Kintoki, the [[RobotMe robot version]] of the protagonist Gintoki, implanting in most of the cast FakeMemories that he has been the protagonist. CanisMajor Sadaharu and RobotGirl Tama are the few ones immune to his hypnosis wave.
* Invoked in ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' when the Bebop crew plug their corgi Ein into a cult's website which would hypnotise any human trying to search it. Unbeknownst to them, Ein is actually a hyperintelligent "data dog", and manages to hack the site almost instantly to furnish the cult leader's location.
* In the ''Anime/SailorMoon'' anime, when Chibiusa first appears she tries to hypnotize Usagi's entire family. At first this even affects Luna (who is a cat, albeit sentient), but she quickly breaks out of the trance and then bites Usagi to snap her out of it as well.
* Inverted in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' in a later episode where Team Rocket used a Drowzee's hypnosis specifically to brainwash Pokemon but not their trainers.

[[AC:ComicBooks]]
* At the end of the ''Comicbook/{{Tintin}}'' story ''[[Recap/TintinFlight714 Flight 714 to Sydney]]'' [[spoiler: the aliens]] wipe the minds of everyone of the entire incident. Snowy remembers the whole thing but it's unclear whether this trope is in effect or if they saw no need to do so as he can't tell anyone.
* In a ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'' comic, Mortadelo tries to invoke this trope by sending a dog after a hypnotizer thief to capture him. Unfortunately, it's subverted when the dog is hypnotized anyway, as the thief SpeaksFluentAnimal.

[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* In one of the ''Literature/LandOfOz'' books a baddie puts up an illusion of a wall of flame. Everyone else is stopped but Toto just walks right through it because he can't see it, or sees that it isn't real, or something.
* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', Sirius Black turns into a dog to escape Azkaban because Dementors don't affect dogs as much as humans.
* In ''Literature/PerdidoStreetStation'', Sincerity the badger doesn't seem to be affected by the slake-moth's hypnotic wings. Justified because the moths feed exclusively on sentient victims, so would never ''need'' to hypnotize animals.

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E5TheHornsOfNimon "The Horns of Nimon."]] The Doctor et al. are in a {{Minotaur}}like maze where the walls keep moving about, but the Doctor's dog-shaped RobotBuddy K9 just goes right through the wall to freedom because he can't see it.

[[AC:TabletopGames]]
* In some editions of the ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' role-playing game, this is explicitly a part of mind-affecting powers--in order to affect animals, you have to buy it with extra points (or sacrifice the Human mind category.)
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** ''Charm'' or ''Hold'' spells that only work on humanoids are lower level than those which affect other creature-types. In an [[InvertedTrope inversion]], there are also low-level mind-affecting spells that ONLY affect animals, but not humanoids or anything else.
** 1st Edition psionics. The Hypnosis power doesn't work on creatures with an Intelligence of 7 or less, which includes all normal animals such as dogs.
** ''Judge Guild'' supplement ''Masters of Mind''. The Hypnosis psionic power doesn't work on animals (such as dogs).

[[AC:VideoGames]]
* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', a powerful demon tries to imprison you and your current party in a LotusEaterMachine. After you break free, you can enter your companions' dreams to free them. Most of them (except Morrigan) fall for the illusion but your Dog is simply put to sleep and re-joins you as soon as you approach him.

[[AC:WebComics]]
* ''WebComic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound'' reveals fairly early on that Sniper Wolf's pet wolf Berthold is a telepath. Then there's one instance when Psycho Mantis and Bert both attempt to brainwash Vulcan Raven in order to fork over a stealth device. Eventually, Mantis' mask gets taken off and as soon as he gets it back on, he realizes that Berthold was a telepath the entire time, perhaps as strong as him.

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* In the 90's British ''[[ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUK Dennis the Menace]]'' cartoon (''Dennis and Gnasher'' stateside) a mad scientist who was using hypnotizing music to trick the town into buying his useless inventions like toothless combs for bald people. He found out it didn't work on dogs and got around it by having a 'no dogs allowed' policy in the store.
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'':
** The episode with Aphrodite had all the humans falling under the spell of flowers [[spoiler:at least, those who could smell it]], which left Scooby Doo [[spoiler:and Professor Pericles]] to save the town.
** Also, the episode with Rude Boy and the ska band has Shaggy and Scooby immune from the music from forcing everyone else to dance.

* ''VideoGame/{{Command and Conquer}}'': ''VideoGame/{{Red Alert 2}}'': The dogs [[spoiler: (and the terror drones which are mechanical dogs)]] are immune to the Psychic Control of the Psychic Commandos (Yuri).

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' TV series, the sand witch rewrote history so that she and Jasmine swapped places. All the humans were affected, including Genie, but Iago, Apu, and Rajah were unaffected, overlapping with RippleEffectProofMemory.

** ''Charm'' or ''Hold'' spells that only work on humanoids are lower level than those which affect other creature-types.

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* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', Sirius Black turns into a dog to escape Azkaban because Dementors don't affect dogs as much as humans.

* In the ''Manga/SailorMoon'' anime, when Chibiusa first appears she tries to hypnotize Usagi's entire family. At first this even affects Luna (who is a cat, albeit sentient), but she quickly breaks out of the trance and then bites Usagi to snap her out of it as well.

* In a ''MortadeloYFilemon'' comic, Mortadelo tries to invoke this trope by sending a dog after a hypnotizer thief to capture him. Unfortunately, it's subverted when the dog is hypnotized anyway, as the thief SpeaksFluentAnimal.

* In ''PerdidoStreetStation'', Sincerity the badger doesn't seem to be affected by the slake-moth's hypnotic wings. Justified because the moths feed exclusively on sentient victims, so would never ''need'' to hypnotize animals.

* ''{{Command and Conquer}}'': ''{{Red Alert 2}}'': The dogs [[spoiler: (and the terror drones which are mechanical dogs)]] are immune to the Psychic Control of the Psychic Commandos (Yuri).
* Zigzaged in ''{{Mother 3}}''. Boney is the only member of the party not to go on the MushroomSamba but that's because he refused to eat the mushrooms rather than any immunity. Also, when the hallucination of the protagonist's [[NeverFoundTheBody assumed-dead brother]] joins the party, Boney indicates its true nature before it attacks.

* ''TheLastDaysOfFoxhound'' reveals fairly early on that Sniper Wolf's pet wolf Berthold is a telepath. Then there's one instance when Psycho Mantis and Bert both attempt to brainwash Vulcan Raven in order to fork over a stealth device. Eventually, Mantis' mask gets taken off and as soon as he gets it back on, he realizes that Berthold was a telepath the entire time, perhaps as strong as him.

* In the 90's British ''[[DennisTheMenaceUK Dennis the Menace]]'' cartoon (''Dennis and Gnasher'' stateside) a mad scientist who was using hypnotizing music to trick the town into buying his useless inventions like toothless combs for bald people. He found out it didn't work on dogs and got around it by having a 'no dogs allowed' policy in the store.

* At the end of the ''Comicbook/{{Tintin}}'' story ''Flight 714 to Sydney'' [[spoiler: the aliens]] wipe the minds of everyone of the entire incident. Snowy remembers the whole thing but it's unclear whether this trope is in effect or if they saw no need to do so as he can't tell anyone.

* ''DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E5TheHornsOfNimon "The Horns of Nimon."]] The Doctor et al. are in a {{Minotaur}}like maze where the walls keep moving about, but the Doctor's dog-shaped RobotBuddy K9 just goes right through the wall to freedom because he can't see it.

* In some editions of the ''{{Champions}}'' role-playing game, this is explicitly a part of mind-affecting powers--in order to affect animals, you have to buy it with extra points (or sacrifice the Human mind category.)
* ''DungeonsAndDragons'':